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its remarkable that left of center epople can see clearly that firearms, in spite of a constitutional right, are dangerous and need to be regulated further than they are but some of them get super confused about cars, as if they are not dangerous and as if we have a constitutional right to drive

submitted 21 hours ago • 26 comments

As a reminder... Deaths on US roads in 2022: 42,514 Deaths on US transit in 2022: 340

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I am a street camera extremist. Put a robot on every single intersection; ticket every single driver who speeds or runs a red light, every single time.

submitted 13 hours ago • 29 comments

Another NY Times headline reminding us that they are very sure their readers are car people. The lazy term "anti-car culture" conceals that limiting cars in cities is a matter of sharing scarce space fairly. No culture is needed to explain why big cities limit cars.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Fascinating post on how payroll taxes in French metropolitan areas provided the funding for French cities to reverse the ridership declines of the 1960s & pave the way for system expansion & high ridership in most cities today.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Australia won't ever tackle its transport emissions until it puts road tanks in a vice - instead the gov't actively incentivises oversized vehicles. theconversation.com/drivers-of-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Cat and bus content. I am the target audience for this.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

‘Terrified’: Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US A former NSW Police officer has recalled the horrific moment she was jailed and deported while visiting her husband in the US.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

It's a bit of an aside from Anna's original post, but I really appreciate that @americanprogress.bsky.social puts this note on disability stories. I think it's really good when outlets are transparent about reflecting the language choices of those being featured.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

A pretty good representation of How It All Works. The bike lane was the result of years of advocacy and community engagement, tons of people use it, but two people complained at a public forum — and a few more behind closed doors — so one of Adams' final acts as mayor might be to remove it.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I’m always confused when people complain about cyclists not stopping at stop signs. The vast majority of drivers do a “rolling stop” (i.e., they don’t actually stop) when possible. This is so normal people don’t even see it as breaking the law, but when cyclists do the same thing, it stands out.

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

US Government Accountability Office finds that—as has been clear for months—the Trump Administration is committing illegal impoundment by pausing the distribution of certain transportation funds.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Just look at that steep increase after 2020. Traffic violence in all forms has just exploded in the past 5 years.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

one underused solid argument against a car centric culture is that many people are absolutely terrible drivers

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money and pollution. Via UITPnews

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

NHTSA tracked 40,901 people killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2023 in the US. crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/V... Wonder how good (or not) the data tracking will be in 2025, how comparable the data...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

submitted 9 days ago • 261 comments

One thing to pay attention to is the people who dismiss generative software's environmental impact always talk about PROJECTIONS - not what is happening right now Like Meta building 2.3 gigawatts (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) of fossil gas turbines to power a data centre www.fastcompany.com/91334846/met...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world. The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use. Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

One background explanation for America's current irrationality & belligerence is that we have made some terrible choices & live in deliberate misery in many ways & it is, on some level, embarrassing. Belligerence feels better than humiliation or shame. It's easier to direct the rage outward.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

Pittsburgh—unlike many other US cities—provides homeless people "credible offers" for long-term housing before sweeping encampments, rather than kicking people out & placing them in emergency shelters, which are often dangerous & inadequate. It's an interesting program other cities might consider:

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

What’s supposed to happen? If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do? Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run? 1.

submitted 13 days ago • 1003 comments

Like cicadas emerging every 13 to 17 years, every 2 or 3 years or so Silicon Valley emerges to reinvent the bus.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you

submitted 18 days ago • 508 comments

It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

submitted 20 days ago • 67 comments

Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox. “In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.

submitted 25 days ago • 112 comments

Sharing this in case it’s useful — I got my MMR series as a kid. After some recent bloodwork, I learnt that my immunity to measles was reduced to 10%. I got a booster yesterday. Consider asking your doctor for bloodwork related to childhood vaccines.

submitted 24 days ago • 56 comments

Great to see some positive stories about Australian politics

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 107 days ago • 568 comments

This is how my views compare with the election candidates in the upcoming Australian election according to @VoteCompass. Try it for yourself! #AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/IB_ojri-q1EG...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

submitted 28 days ago • 612 comments

People who continue to hate on public transport do not know how much freedom you get from a really good public transport system. I miss Asian public transport ALL THE TIME.

submitted 29 days ago • 17 comments

Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there, the ICE arrest team STILL took this family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back! This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.

submitted 29 days ago • 247 comments

This time with the alt text hopefully working.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

"There’s a persistent myth in transportation policy that you can’t do pricing until you provide copious and comprehensive improved transit alternatives. That’s bunk. Pricing makes road systems more efficient by giving people incentives to drive less, particularly at peak hours."

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments